Yankees vs. Red Sox: Does England have an appetite for baseball? | MLB
Вставка
- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- With the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox playing an historic two-game series at the London Stadium, ESPN decided to delve a little deeper into America’s national pastime and its origins in England. We caught up with a British professor and American baseball historian John Thorn, who claims the sport was first played in England in the 1690’s and a different version adopted in America in the 1730’s wasn’t the invention of Abner Doubleday. Plus, we met some of the locals that have taken to the sport and the London ‘Mets’ who remain undefeated to their rivals, the London ‘Capitals.’
Subscribe to ESPN UK: bit.ly/1oGUzVA
Follow ESPN UK across multiple platforms:
/ espnuk
/ espnuk
www.espn.co.uk/
“Spit less” you’re asking a little too much there
Abiel Alvarenga exactly, 😒
Haha nice one!!😂
Bad Cattitude I don’t even chew and I still spit I think every young baseball player just picks up from watching the pros
Bad Cattitude wasn’t even talking about dip specifically. We spit seeds too
Smitty Cle I wasn’t referring to dip specifically
Great to see the Mets getting some exposure
Yeah we have a Padres fan in England respect bro
@Dante Mckimmey Do you mean the Soccer/Football team.
The A’s have a whole fan base there. In your face padres guy!!!
I live in the UK and absolutely love baseball
Do you follow any particular team?
@@PerthTowne Yes, I love Colorado Rockies... But I do keep an eye on several teams, Yankees being one
Colorado Rockies? I wouldn't have guess that! Yankees fan myself.
@@PerthTowne I lived in Colorado for 7 months and became a fan during that time, prior to that I wasn't a fan of any team really, however there were several teams that I liked without being a fan... I just loved watching Baseball and would watch whoever was on at the time, there are of course several former Rockies that are now Yankees
To James Davies: It is refreshing to know that being in the UK you can fairly and personally choose your United States sports teams, and not be psychologically holed-up in a region or city that you cannot mentally separate yourself from, lest you seem as if an outcast with your friends, students, or co-workers. ------------------------ It is akin to having fewer options to venture and reside in neighborhoods outside of "one's own" and are stuck with their cultures, music, and entertainment. If you choose a topic out of bounds, you are ostracised. In the States, it's heartbreaking. I am a UK expat to the US and wasn't used to this and still am not. Even London's Brixton and Notting Hill, back in the day were not black neighborhoods.
I like that Padres fan. There aren't many of us in the US. Even fewer in Britain.
LightninLarry except that we are not rubbish anymore we are killing it let’s go pads
Martin Prause I wouldn’t say killing it but the Padres are doing better
King Midget71 compared to our past seasons we are killing it offensively, although maybe give it more time for our young pitchers.
King Midget71 and getting rid of Andy Green will help a lot too.
Martin Prause the padres are doing better and I know kinda what it feels like to be a fan of a team that struggles
To become popular in any country, it needs exposure on tv. A highlights programme on terrestrial tv, every week, would soon bring a following.
John T They used to show baseball highlights a few years ago on Channel 5 but was during the night and nobody watched them so they gave up and put on all night gambling instead!
I think the US should indoctrinate the children in other countries to play baseball when they're little lol. Joking. But I played baseball growing up here in the US. I played in "minor league" 12 years old, and then in Little League (13-14) or so years old and then when I was 15 "senior league" I think it was called. And I liked certain MLB players during that time. Honestly as an adult I stopped following the sport but this past week I've been watching Japanese player Ichiro and been looking at Japanese videos about baseball etc. The Japanese really like the MLB it seems like.
I’m English and a Red Sox fan. I went to the first game of the series in London. Been a Sox fan since I first went in 05.
The worst thing about this is knowing people who own Yankee hats and have no idea what the logo is for
Canada and Australia stuck with the UK for a long time, and they play baseball in both countries. The former of course has a high profile, but it has a following in Australia also.
Baseball is mighty low key in Australia
@@robertryan7204 Sure, but it's more common than in the UK.
They tried to hold a T20 cricket tournament in Canada last year but every game was empty apart from a few local Indian residents (Indian as in India not the local natives!!)
Robert Ryan They play cricket in Australia not baseball lol. Rugby/Aussie rules rugby > Cricket > Football in Australia my guy.
@@Derperfier Some Aussies play baseball. Look it up.
“Padres are rubbish” haha
David Sethian Lmao go PADS!!!!!
Keep the faith!
@@moethebartender8837 Friar Faithful!
Padres are actually not that bad this season.
“Ever since I’ve supported them, they’ve been absolutely rubbish” hopefully the padres are turning things around
Padres are only 14 games back. Go Dodgers!!!😎
Padres are here
“We gave them rock n roll” proceeds to show 2 British bands from the English Invasion
Ryan Papoutsis I think the point was supposed to be that we invented rock over here, and then the British took it and made their own bands
True,
Would love to see MLB finally making it to Europe.
Played for the Mets and a top D3 college. The Mets would get smashed
Matt Tarrant: The US-lead Mets organization are doing little for their ever fleeting success. Lacking fleet of foot as Fleet Street frolics over the fall of the Mets.
How fast do they even throw there 60-70 mph?
@@benscott9997average 15 year olds here throw 65-80
When I was landing in Amsterdam I saw numerous baseball fields across the county. Europe is really falling in love with the gameXD.
Hmmm ... I've got ESPN and watch baseball, enjoying it all my adult life
Enjoyed the College World Series too
Went to the London Series and loved it ✅
Been to the US to watch it in Philly, Boston, Toronto and Chicago
Love being in the 2%
paul elliott south side or north side in Chicago? Cubs fan here.
Watched the Cubbies at Wrigley Field against the Braves
Cab driver who took us to the stadium said that the fans too busy talking and drinking to watch the game - heh
Loved being in Chicago and ticked one off my bucket list to see the Cubs at Wrigley
Looking forward to seeing Rizzo, Bryant and the rest of the guys play the Cardinals next year (if finances allow)
paul elliott that’s great! Most of the heavier drinking is done in the cheaper bleachers, but there’s great fans everywhere in the park. One of the best atmospheres in baseball. How was it when you were there?
Aloysius O’Hare
We were sat in right field and had a blast
Great atmosphere, although the Braves won we saw some dingers, great pitching and some excellent defence
Fans were awesome and in good voice; lots of comments too that had us smiling
Sun was shining, baseball being played, life is indeed sweet sometimes
Being from Europe, I educated myself in the sport by playing MLB The Show (17, now playing 19) and streaming games (which is the only way where I live). Barely knew anything about it, except the term Homerun, 2 years ago; now I'm "well-versed".
I stream it and I live 40 minute away from the damn team
If you have a question in your headline, the answer is no
“We gave them Megan Markle, and they loved her”
Yeah, no we don’t like her
Sir Spider I honestly didn’t like here in Suits
Especially after she disrespect the Queen.
I was waiting for this 😂😂
We used to have baseball teams here in late 19th century. Derby County FC used to play at the Baseball Ground until the late 1990s, it was even used for baseball before football. There was a league but it only lasted a decade or so. Anyway, I'm a big cricket fan, would like to get into baseball, so will watch the games. I'm a believer that you can like both sports and if you understand and like cricket then you can like baseball and vice-versa.
@itheuser First I agree . I used to find cricket boring, I didn't understand it. Then really got into it when I was 15. I think the more you watch on TV, the more games you go to, the more discussions you have on a sport the more you get to enjoy it. I think that is soccer's problem in America- women's team is best in world, so women's game is popular, but not the men's the other sports will always be more popular.I quite enjoyed the Yankees v Red Sox game. Great entertainment, crazy score! 17-13?! I always thought baseball was lower scoring than that?
@What Not To Do At a Stoplight Yeah and I said the women's team were the best in the world, don't see your point. We focus so much on one sport because it's the biggest sport there is, it's the only truly global sport.
@What Not To Do At a Stoplight Yeah the commentators said it was a bit of a strange one, very rare. Lots of runs though that's what we like here! We're used to the cricket.
@What Not To Do At a Stoplight See I found the baseball a bit slow, not enough hitting either. I guess it's just what you're used to and prefer.
@What Not To Do At a Stoplight Ha yeah I know what you mean, that's test matches which can last for up to 5 days (6 hours play per day). But there are one day internationals (about 7 and half hours) and T20 which lasts for 3 hours approx, which is about the same time as baseball. That will probably become the most popular version because it's shorter and more action packed.
When I was a university student in London fifty years ago we went to Regent's Park to practive some baseball drills like hitting fungos where one tosses the ball up and hits it to a fielder. The first time me mate hit the ball it went on a line and hit this poor woman walking down on the path - she collapsed like a Monty Python sketch as the ball went straight up in the air. We had to expain that she had not been hit by a cricket ball but by a 'soft ball" though didn't think it felt very soft to her
If it were a cricket ball, I believe it would have been manslaughter
@@TheCoomer You're right there - at the very least a sudden trip to the ER.
well, both teams got 6 runs each after the 1st inning...
"Absolute Rubbish!" Truer words have never been spoken. It's so funny to see someone in England wear a MLB jersey, and it not be a Yankees or Red Sox jersey.
In a word: no! Who's idea was it to hold the game right in the middle of the cricket world cup anyway?
More MLB games should be in Netherlands and Italy where baseball is somewhat relevant
There are a lot of Americans living in the UK and Europe, military and ex-pats. Cool to see them get a taste of home, while also introducing America's pastime to the Brits. Don't forget if you catch a foul ball or even better a home run ball, unlike cricket you don't have to give it back, it's yours to keep! The Aussies were bewildered by this when the Dodgers-Dbacks opened the season in Sydney 2016 lol
2003 I played on a Baseball Field in Regents Park with a mix of English & American expats
I’m pretty sure the British don’t love Meghan Markel
The British also didn't invent rock and roll. All of the original rock and roll artists of the 50s were American. Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, etc. All of those artists were inspirations to The Beatles, Stones, The Who, Zeppelin, The Kinks, and many others
That baseball logo with an "L" looks like Tigres del licey, a professional baseball team from the Dominican Republic.
“We’d be a competitive D-3 college team” that made me lose it😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
An mlb team for britain would most definitely help baseballs popularity there. The problem is Britain is too far from the u.s. Just flying to the east coast of the u.s. to play games is a 5 hour flight from britain. So you can only imagine how long of a flight a west coast u.s. trip will be from Britain. Then you add 162 games ontop of that, where half of those games are road games and it just becomes too much. Maybe when commercial flights go super sonic and flight times are a fraction of what they are now, then it maybe possible to have international teams. until then, i don't see any country outside of north america getting a mlb team anytime soon.
baseball is a beautiful sport. england would accept it but you have to show them why, put on a home run derby with some of MLBs finest.....theyll come back to see baseball again
"Stool" ball!? Well, you know where this is going.....!!! Lmao
Seriously the music
Baseball is popular in england the same way cricket is popular in the u.s.a.
Not very popular in Italy either except near some American NATO bases, such as Vicenza. Of course association football rules in Europe...
The NY Yanks has a goodluck charm living in Bayonne, NJ
We play rounders at secondary school which is very similar to baseball but it isn’t massively popular. I would love to see baseball rise in popularity here though
There’s no reason the Brits can’t love BB. It’s essentially their game. They already love Cricket. And they have a total penchant for drama and pageantry. They’ll love this game.
I don't know about the U.S. giving England music. I think it was the other way around. America had music but Britain brought America the best and refined modern music of the times.
Rounders...
First mention of “base ball” in literature Northanger Abbey, 1799.
Perhaps us Americans ought to take up cricket and make it popular here in return? Imagine if baseball really catches on in the U.K. Then two London teams come here to the U.S. with the hopes of getting Americans so excited about their game that we start building cricket stadiums and teams - only fair 😊😁
@@user-qt7iv7qv7b american football is already pretty big in the UK, it packs out 4 games a year in two different stadiums, baseball not so much
@@user-qt7iv7qv7b I thought soccer is the world's most popular sport?
If "people" claim that baseball is too slow, I'm surely not one of them. I absolutely love it just the way it is, and a huge Yankees lifetime fan. I'll tell you, though, American football is much slower than baseball, which is why I'm bored watching it with all the stops and starts of it. Once you understand American baseball, it can really get into your blood. I think the two games in the U.K. were a huge success, and I watched just about every minute of it. Being a Yankee fan, of course I loved it even more against our perrenial rivals 😊😁👍
Rambo penguin but the domestic “pro” teams folded awhile ago; see NFL Europe.
What Not To Do At a Stoplight Cricket is played all over the world from Canada to New Zealand actually.
we will never spit less
Opening statement about Finsbury Park not true. There are two diamonds based in Roundshaw in Sutton/Croydon, the main one being "Dave Ward 1". In the past the baseball national National Finals have been held there apparently.
However I have never seen a single person do baseball there in years.
Hold on we gave the Brits rock n roll. Yes great American bands as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Who. Also not so sure the Brits like Murkle all that much.
Led Zepplin got caught stealing songs from old southern blues musicians so yes.
What musician don’t steal. Look into Elvis lots of his music was stolen from black musicians. Led Zeppelin are still Brits no?
@@ronaldreagan8795 i mean they were taken to court for plagerism
You did say “Led Zepplin got caught stealing songs from old southern blues musicians so yes.” So keep going. Did all the bands from England steal from America?
Those, and many more from the "British Invasion" like Deep Purple, Herman's Hermits, Dave Clark V, heck even Queen are some of the best bands ever BUT they wouldn't have come to exist without the MUSIC that DID come from the U.S. like Rock n' Roll, blues and country. That would be a more accurate way to state it, because that's what we actually gave them and gave to the world. Led Zeppelin and the other fantastic bands needed to have the music first to write/play/sing like they did and still do + their enormous talent and musical skills.
Forgot to mention that we gave them the nfl
3:37 as a San Diegan I can confirm
My Padres are over .500 now, there is hope
Gave England all this culture 🙄 😂
I mean they did give us those two things listed to be fair
we give you the gulf stream current you better watch out for climate change because we'll shut that shit off.
Culture as in what's grown on a petri dish!
It's a great sport but it will never catch on, the brits like most of the world loves soccer,easy to play and understand requires little infrastructure costs.and is a continuous ball moving game.A sport so simple you can follow it no matter how drunk you are .We should be concentrating on china with the massive population even if a tiny percentage loves baseball it will have a huge following also latin american countries produce some of the finest players in the world,we should be going there.
I watch competitive d3 baseball alot at the local university. And current football champs
The stadium was going crazy!
Go Padres! :)
1:21 I'm not so sure about that
Little League World Series has grown influence to the younger generation, so you to make your mark with the youths. Have "three" 3 series exhibitions between teams in London next year and go on from there.
What a series it was!
I started watching baseball after watching the red sox vs yankees in the playoffs redsox were down 3-0 and came to win the series
that's brutally honest "were basically a competitive D3 college baseball team" oooooooof
So they're slightly better than a good high school team 😂
@@theItalianshamrock basically lol at Least he was honest and wasn't fluffing up his team.
No we absolutely do not
1:40 he should have given it 0/10 instead of 2.
Perhaps the KBO could turn it around with the interest in baseball in the UK. most other Korean interests are gathering pace world wide. it be fantastic if a Korean based company in the UK would sponsor baseball in the UK . Also all the USA military bases in the UK they could help support British baseball, Even let us use their baseball pitches for practice.
I suppose the security would be a logistical nightmare for them thou.
Correction: it was actually the British who gave America baseball, not the other way around. Baseball was based on numerous bat and ball sports that were previously played in Britain, most notably rounders.
The way I see it, it's pretty unlikely that baseball, Major League or otherwise, will ever be successful in Britain. What the high attendance numbers from the recent MLB game in London won't tell you is that most of those people were Americans who carved enough time out of their schedules and found enough money to make the trip across the pond and see the game in person. Same goes for football; the only football Brits care about is soccer, which is why the NFL is wasting its time holding games over there.
At the same time this game was being played the Cricket World Cup was being played 6 miles away
The NFL has played 24 games in London in just over a decade and every game has sold out. The 4 games coming up in October all sold out within an hour of the tickets going on sale!
Correct it seems like a,desperate attempt to get more sponsorship for American Baseball
Baseball was invented in england
Baseball should be more popular in the UK, after all,they invented the sport. I think its not popular because the UK has not done enough to promote the sport. When you get to understand the game you will relize how much more exciting the sport is compared to football and other sports. Still, I think it will take more then a two game series to make baseball popular here in the UK
1:24 “we tried giving them baseball”
Perry, please expound more on this. Specifically the 1749 document about a game being played in the Royal Court.
@@lovejetfuel4071 The Brits invented cricket, but baseball is a refinement and a very different game, which was invented here in the U.S. A similarity would be the harpsichord evolving into the piano, which was refined (invented) by the Italian Cristofori.
@@jerry3579 It's not derived from cricket, but from an English game called bass ball. The modern form of the game is indeed american.
More people arm wrestle with rules than play baseball in England.
I thought it was awesome plus can someone tell me why the need to spit, i spit in my house sometimes so i thought it was real funny, american baseball in England has a sister sport rounders which is normally played in primary school or you probably see the odd game in the park mostly by team building exercises for companies
Love the jersey the guys wearing in the thumbnail
IT'S ROUNDERS.
itheuser First No, its rounders!
It's simply a matter of which sports you grow up with. Baseball is quite different from many constant action sports. Baseball is about strategy and skill more so then raw physical prowess. It's about the pitcher vs. the batter. It's about building to a crescendo. It's calm enough to have a conversation, but also explosive and violent enough to have a hard ball moving faster then most people have driven. It's a thinking mans sport. In parts of the US baseball is a bit like a religion. The Japanese have taken it as their own for a long time now. I find it interesting how the game has evolved slightly differently in Japan, yet still very much the same game.
I played soccer as a kid. Watching it is like watching grass grow.
At least a team named the Mets are doing good 😂😂😂😂
the only time you'll hear the words "Mets" and "Undefeated" in the same sentence.
I always thought that baseball is americanized cricket 😂😂
Them Mets are on the level of a competitive beer league team
Despite all the comments/the cricket World Cup/football/ Wembley tennis games going on or starting to begin. I hope the British people that attended that series or watched it on TV enjoyed what they saw.
J Dilla Considering the game was not shown on terrestrial tv which most people have then a lot of people didn't even have the chance to watch it and the people who have satellite tv were all watching the cricket world cup anyway!
Yea I figured most people tuned into the Cricket World Cup, what was it India Vs England. I know that holds far more weight
"We gave you all this music and culture..."
I'm sorry, what?
If it were called stoolball we would have to name the league MLS which would create a lot of confusion
That's cool.
I like baseball fan in the UK
4:40 That Umpire is probably Canadian, I mean look at him! He looks like he is about to say, "Sorry." If this happened in the U.S the manager would of gotten tossed.
I didn’t know Canadians had full on British accents
Yo the host is the mtv guy!!!!? No wonder he looks so familiar
HELL YEAH A BRITISH PADRES FAN!!!
Really American TV, with the music? Do you think this just always plays in the air in England? And as for baseball - nah.
Hope one of the great sports does well in one of the great cities
1:19 that did not age well
Uhm
2:31 Frank Costanza is a baseball historian?
It was a million-to-one shot doc! Million to one!
More Padres fans in England than the US
we play rounders , so baseball world a been more popular but it was never promoted
Watch the cubs vs cardinals. Cubs gonna sweep. Bryant’s going to hit an absolute fucking BOMB’
OMG...what is that here? Do the Amerikans knew how big Baseball in Europe is so far? Baseball is Amazing Big in Europe and its getting bigger every Day. Look for example to Germany, netherlands, italy, the check rep. And even here in switzerland and many more...
British are to proper to steal a base😁
This is a weird video, I enjoyed seeing baseball in the UK but reporting was lacking imo lmao
Padres arent too bad this year
No it’s better than cricket 😎
hahahahaha
Dodgers vs. Yankees would’ve been proper.
pandemic7 unless it’s Brooklyn Dodgers
We are not nearly as sanitized as British. Baseball will never be a thing in England for a million reasons.
Everyone in the US thought NFL games in London were a fad - they have now sold out every game for the past 12 years, with tickets selling out in a matter of hours. Baseball will take hold in the UK eventually, but it will be a long process.
They sold out both games in London , about 60,000 each game . Never say never.
No, Baseball has been around for at least 150yrs
Baseball will never be a thing here as long as cricket exists and that's not going away!
@@tsu8003 Cricket is having its own problems attracting a younger audience. I wouldn't take it for granted that the future is healthy there either.
I know chicks dig the long ball but 385 to straightaway center? C'mon man!
is that creed?
Go Padres!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make the game faster, and make the game not so uptight.
What Not To Do At a Stoplight classy? Its a kids game ffs lol
I like the pace of baseball, and the fact that you have to keep playing until someone wins. You can't have a tie. I saw a game at Yankee Stadium that went extra innings until something like 1:00 am--and no one could score the winning run. So they stopped, and then started the game up the next day to finish it.
Wish the americans knew what britian actully is like
This was probably the most pretentious video possible
lol thought the same thing
You're pretentious, just for using the word, pretentious.
111highgh great logic
Yo cricket weird a bit pathetic they use bigger bats it just makes it easy to hit the ball while in “Merica” just use smaller bats to give us a challenge
LOL
And yet you use huge gloves to catch the ball!
@@tsu8003 Yup, which also increases the challenge, making it even harder to get a hit.
On a 1-10 scale of how popular cricket is in the states is a 0 . Not at all sorry.